Ancient Italian States: An Authority List Project

The project to create an authority list of the Italian states arises from the lack of such a list in Italy. The standardization of headings for the ancient states has taken into account all of the problems and difficulties arising from the nineteenth-century concept of ‘state,’ as we mean it today. That concept is quite difficult to apply to Italian states established before that time. This paper describes making this list. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: Website: © 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]